A461 crash in Walsall on 26 June 2025 at 15:50 involving a BMW 2 Series
A BMW 2 Series and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on the A461 in Walsall at 15:50 on Thursday 26 June 2025. The 43-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 2 Series and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60682, longitude -1.96149, in the WS4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Rushall and Shelfield. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rushall-Shelfield, Walsall, WS4 1EX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Walsall
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025201608290
- Council area
- Walsall
- Police force
- West Midlands
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 461
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 4154
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1998.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A461 in Walsall, 29 November 1998
7 m awayRef 199820H168101
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the A461 in Walsall, 1 May 2010
7 m awayRef 201020H003080
Slight
Dennis crash on the A461 in Walsall, 4 March 2004
7 m awayRef 200420H016101
Slight
Volvo crash on the A461 in Walsall, 23 April 1998
7 m awayRef 199820H057001
Slight
Volvo crash on the A461 in Walsall, 21 September 2002
7 m awayRef 200220H066202
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A461 in Walsall, 8 January 1999
7 m awayRef 199920H004501
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 2 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2025201608290 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Walsall road accident statistics for 2025.